I have a new discourse community starting up and we’re trying to support mailing list users as best we can. A user has asked if they can respond to a public thread notification email privately, as a private message to the poster who made it. That word-soup sounds confusing so here’s steps: User A…

I don’t know if that’s possible, but users sometimes get confused about the intended recipient when replying by email. If a Public post —> Private email reply is possible, it should be very conspicuous where the message is going. See this: [image] Difficult to tell that wat…

[image] Json_Blob: A user has asked if they can respond to a public thread notification email privately No. Discourse does not share email addresses with other users. They will need to visit the site and send a pm like you said.

Gotcha, that was one of my suspicions unless you guys had some black magic in the background which would handle rerouting the reply somehow. Cheers

@Json_Blob you can use the plugin here , which will expose the sender’s email. @pfaffman In order to keep email addresses private, would it be possible to replace the reply-to with an email alias that sends a DM? DMs are already sent and can be replied to via email.

Email response as private message

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) October 3, 2018, 7:42pm 3

No. Discourse does not share email addresses with other users. They will need to visit the site and send a pm like you said.

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